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Peterlee (Shotton) Airfield 12th July 2026  Not been here for a while, but the Summit Air Shorts Skyvan C-GKOA was a nice visitor for a week joining the based Cessna 208 Caravan N208AX doing some extra drops.....

Teesside Thursday 13th August (10.15am - 11.00am) Spitfires.com Vickers Spitfire Mk.TIX G-ILDA was based for the rest of the week operating some pleasure flights arriving from Goodwood late on the 10th. Gamson flying school Diamond DR42 Twin Star did an overshoot routing from and to its Gamston base, and lastly just before dark taken from my house was Fed Ex/ASL Belgium Boeing 737-400F OE-IBI operating the Edinburgh to Paris Charles de Gaulle (FDX2DI) cargo flight.

Teesside Monday 17th August (10.55am - 11.10am) German Navy Dornier 228-200 57+05 routed from Nordholz to Aberdeen as (GNY4785).

Teesside Saturday 22nd August (9.00am - 10.45am) Ryanair Boeing 737-MAX-8-200 EI-IJG was operating the (RYR5LT/3375) Malaga Service, Cessna 185 Skywagon N1015F diverted in lastnight while on route from Inverness to Ostend, it continued its journey after stopping the night, having starting this epic delivery flight from the west coast of Canada 15th August.  Fox Flight Air Ambulance Learjet 40 C-FEMT arrived from Toronto via St Johns and Shannon, and lastly Embraer EMB505 Phenom 300 OK-PHP routed from Prague to Faro as  (PAV171).

Teesside Monday 24th (14.30pm - 15.30pm) Gulfstream G650 N988NC arrived from Athens via Oxford yesterday and departed to Farnborough mid afternoon..

Teesside Sunday 30th August (16.45pm - 17.00pm)  Not often you can shoot two tri-jets in Teesside these days, one though unfortunately wont be around for much longer, anyway ex British Airways HS Trident 3B G-AWZS, which has been with the fire school since its arrival from London Heathrow as (BAW9709) on March 12th 1986 looks to be getting scrapped, and might be gone by the end of this bank holiday weekend! Whilst the other tri-jet, Nomad Aviation Falcon 8X HB-IXX arrived from Biggin Hill as (NUM511).

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